Does Fallout's "Rule of Thumb" Work?
AdultsCreativityEducation...Is #fallout 's famous Vault Boy actually hiding some accurate nuclear blast survival tactics?
Why the Hardest Rocks Can Be Easy to Break
AdultsEducationMath...So, rocks are hard. But the scale we use to rank them, the Mohs scale, is only really good at quantifying that for one kind of hardness, and topaz is a perfect stone to talk about to explain that. And you can check it out in our SciShow Rocks Box subscription!
MinuteEarth Explains: Solar Eclipses
AdultsEducationScience...Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar eclipses. Here they are, all seven of them!
The Real Killer Of The Dinosaurs
AdultsEducationHistory...A ruthless murder was committed! Someone killed the dinosaurs and we have the murderer! Witnesses say that an Everest-sized asteroid hit Earth, devastated the planet and caused a mass extinction. A simple, fascinating and convincing explanation. Or… is it?
How the Most Expensive Swords in the World Are Made
AdultsConstructionEducation...This is a video about how Japanese samurai swords, aka katanas, are made – from the gathering of the iron sand, to the smelting of the steel, to the forging of the blade.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
AdultsCreativityEducation...Many crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.
Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time
AdultsCreativityEducation...Is your future already written? Do your past, present, and future all exist right now? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.
6 Tips on Being a Successful Entrepreneur | John Mullins | TED
AdultsEducationHuman...Sometimes, you need to break the rules to innovate — but which ones? Entrepreneurship professor John Mullins shares six counter-conventional mindsets for entrepreneurs looking to think strategically, navigate challenges and change the world.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.